{"id":11402,"date":"2015-07-14T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T07:01:46","slug":"computer-science-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science:  Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor starts about Python.<\/h1>\n<p>I met the programming language Python about three years ago.  It&#8217;s got the quick scriptiness of Perl, along with object-oriented capabilities.  Furthermore, it&#8217;s applicable to small devices, like phones.<\/p>\n<p>Python&#8217;s got a great IDE:  IDLE.  It runs the current line of code when you press ENTER, so you immediately know if a command will work.<\/p>\n<p>From my experience, Linux (Ubuntu, anyway) has on-board Python capabilities.  However, IDLE itself likely isn&#8217;t native, though it&#8217;s easy to download, perhaps via the Ubuntu Software Centre.  (That&#8217;s how I did it.)<\/p>\n<p>For Linux or Windows, Python can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/downloads\/\">here<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve downloaded it to Windows 7, although I admit not lately.  In a coming post I&#8217;ll talk more specifically about doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson, Toby.  <u>Python<\/u>.  Peachpit Press, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor starts about Python. I met the programming language Python about three years ago. It&#8217;s got the quick scriptiness of Perl, along with object-oriented capabilities. Furthermore, it&#8217;s applicable to small devices, like phones. Python&#8217;s got a great IDE: IDLE. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-science-python\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer Science:  Python<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[930],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11420,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}